(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
Gun-rights activists and the Republican legislators who love them are crowing about news reports Friday from a meeting in Aspen of the County Sheriffs of Colorado, wherein Gov. John Hickenlooper reportedly apologized to the state's elected county sheriffs for the handling of the passage of new gun safety laws in the 2013 legislative session. As […]
The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels updates the state of play in the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary, where top contenders Bob Beauprez and Tom Tancredo are running neck-and-neck in polls widely rumored but as yet unseen: With the primary election around the corner, Tom Tancredo said Friday he believes he has slipped from being the front-runner […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) After House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's crash, you naturally wonder which Republicans in Colorado's gubernatorial primary are out-of-the-closet tea partiers. Arguably, they're all closeted tea-party types, at a minimum, but who lets his tea-party flag fly? Colorado's gubernatorial race has been spotlighted nationally as the next big test of tea-party strength, […]
The Hill reports–it's true what you've heard! The Obamanation himself–coming to Colorado to help Sen. Mark Udall! What could it mean? Will they sacrifice babies and kittens to Allah? Will they stop your children from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and/or take away their salty, sugary snacks which is just as bad? Will they singlehandedly raise […]
UPDATE: A recall petition has been approved for circulation, press release from the El Paso County Clerk: 44,000 signatures is a very tall order, but the alleged malfeasance level here is pretty high too. So… —– A remarkable scene in Colorado Springs yesterday, as the Colorado Springs Gazette's Dave Phillips reports: Vicki Maketa, who has […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) I've been too busy listening to talk radio to notice news reports that talk radio anchored the defeat of GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Politico reported Wednesday: Brat’s surprise victory is a powerful reminder, as if any were needed, of the immense influence talk radio has over conservative politics — […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) I received my first email today asking to join the "Restoring Colorado" movement. In a perfect world this would be a great idea. Being the fifth-generation of my family to live in rural Colorado, that 'blood' runs deep. I personally believe in the mostly-untapped potential of our region to produce energy, […]
UPDATE #2: Apropos, Eli Stokols goes in-depth on the SD-19 primary for 5280.com today: "I just couldn't do it," Sias says. "For me to [run for state senate], I'll be beholden to the Constitution and to the people of the district, not an outside power broker. At the end of the day, I'd rather lose than […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Tom Tancredo is best known for being a rattlesnake on immigration issues, but he's hard right on social issues too (e.g., he supports an abortion ban.). In this conversation with KNUS' Peter Boyles last week, Tancredo says it's not what gay people do that bothers him. He says he doesn't care. […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports on the continuing reverberations from Tuesday's stunning ouster of U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by an underdog Tea Party-backed challenger: With precious days left to sway primary voters, three of the four Colorado Republicans seeking their party’s gubernatorial nomination are aligning themselves with the anti-establishment wave that just toppled the second […]
So many Colo. politicos asking me if I think Cory Gardner regrets jumping into #COsen, w/ sudden House GOP leadership opening.. #COpolitics — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 11, 2014 News of Republican House Majority Eric Cantor's shocking primary election defeat at the hands of an underfunded Tea Party-supported opponent has shaken the GOP power structure in […]
Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn is once again facing a Primary challenge in CD-5, with repeat candidate Bentley Rayburn looking to pull off the upset on June 24th. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning Primary loss yesterday was the result of several factors, but chief among them is the issue of immigration reform. As the […]
Our friends at "The Fix" take a look at the looming leadership battle coming to Capitol Hill in the aftermath of Rep. Eric Cantor's stunning Primary loss: Twenty-four hours ago, the interesting leadership race among House Republicans was scheduled for next January and was expected to feature questions about House Speaker John Boehner's future. The […]
As CNN reports: Rep. Eric Cantor is expected to relinquish his leadership position as the No. 2 House Republican after losing his Virginia primary in a stunning upset, a senior GOP source tells CNN's Dana Bash. Cantor is expected to step aside as majority leader on July 31. The decision sets up a leadership scramble […]
As the Colorado Independent's John Tomasic reports: The charge has been dropped in what’s believed to be the first voter fraud case set for trial since Secretary of State Scott Gessler urged district attorneys statewide to prosecute people who purportedly are cheating Colorado’s election system. Mike Michaelis was scheduled to be tried today for allegedly […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE #2: Would anyone care to speculate what nationally syndicated conservative pundit Michelle Malkin means by this? Big congrats to @DaveBratVA7th – & kudos to @ingrahamangle for cranking it up. Anti-amnesty revolt has just begun. Colorado is next! — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 11, 2014 We assume she means Tom Tancredo, since Malkin is […]
I posted two weeks about Xcel’s fight over municipalization in Boulder. Now it looks like Xcel is getting pretty desperate on this, so desperate in fact that they are suing the city of Boulder to try and force them to keep Xcel as their utility, even though folks voted to get rid of them. Per […]
Colorado law: The Colorado PERA base benefit "shall" be paid, the Colorado PERA COLA benefit "shall" be paid. The challenge for Colorado PERA's lawyers? Make that plain statutory language appear to be ambiguous. If Colorado PERA's lawyers are successful, the State of Colorado can pay off state debts using money forcibly taken from elderly Colorado […]
Controversy is building this week over a column in the Washington Post by arch-conservative pundit George Will, dismissing the problem of college campus sexual assault after a new White House report on the issue. Denver-area political communications consultant Laura Chapin hammers Will for U.S. News and World Report today, calling for his firing from the Washington Post: Memo to […]
As promised, 9NEWS' Brandon Rittiman "Truth Tested" yesterday a pair of ads running from a Democratic-leaning group targeting the Republican gubernatorial primary. We discussed yesterday the incremental preference Democrats logically have for Republican candidate Tom Tancredo over frontrunning GOP opponent Bob Beauprez, which is primarily Beauprez's cash and the need to divert resources to counter it. Neither of […]
POLS NOTE: Gordon "Dr. Chaps" Klingenschmitt won the HD-15 GOP Assembly vote by a 71% margin. He faces Dave Williams in the June 24th primary. Christian host: Baking cakes for same-sex weddings is ‘the ultimate hate speech’ (via Raw Story ) A conservative Christian talk show host said on Tuesday that the “ultimate hate speech” […]
An interesting twist on the usual primary wrangling–check out the mailer below, sent by a GOP message group in support of Democratic HD-24 primary candidate Kristian Teegardin to Democratic primary voters: This mailing raises eyebrows for a couple of reasons. There's the obvious question about a Republican aligned and operated group getting involved in a Democratic primary. […]
The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic reports on what's known, as of today, about the state of negotiations over local control legislation to forestall oil and gas local regulation measures being readied for this November's statewide ballot. The latest news is…no news: Draft legislation shopped around this weekend that seeks to clarify powers held by state, […]
Congressman Cory Gardner has released his first television ad of his Senate campaign, as Lynn Bartels of the Denver Post reports today, and it is a clear attempt at trying to create a "age controversy" that would benefit Gardner. Via Bartels and the Post, here's the script of the ad (which you can watch after […]
We're awaiting another 9NEWS Truth Test from reporter Brandon Rittiman, this time analyzing two ads from Democratic-aligned groups attacking two Republican gubernatorial primary candidates: Bob Beauprez and Tom Tancredo. As we discussed last week and FOX 31's Eli Stokols reported, there's a straightforward logic behind Democratic spending on this Republican primary–but it's nothing for Republicans to feel […]
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